Late last week, a conversation between high-ranking Turkish officials was leaked online purporting to expose a plan that had been devised to use a staged attack on a Turkish target in Aleppo as a pretext to start a war with Syria.

The leak of the conversation was considered sensitive enough that the government of Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan took the extraordinary measure of blocking YouTube in the country to prevent the population from learning about the story ahead of key local elections.

That a false flag event was being planned as a pretext for war with Syria should come as no surprise to viewers of the alternative media, who know that this was precisely what happened last year when rebel forces used chemical weapons in Ghouta in an attack that was falsely blamed on Syrian government forces, a fact that was confirmed by a recent MIT study into the incident.

And the fact that Turkey in particular would be actively coordinating a staged provocation within the borders of Syria should come as no surprise to followers of BoilingFrogsPost.com, which broke the story in November of 2011 of Syrian military defector Riad al-Assad training Syrian militants at the American Incirlik Base in Adana, Turkey.

And it should come as no surprise to anyone that the corporate media in the US have attempted to obscure the actual content of the conversations in their limited reporting on the subject. Where the head of Turkish intelligence says he will order his men to launch rockets at Turkish targets from within Syria, the BBC portrays this as undefined “military operations.” When the Turkish Ambassador stresses that any attack on the tomb of Suleyman Shah would have to be perpetrated by Turkish agents and made to look like an Al-Qaeda attack, Reuters calls this a plan to “secure” the tomb. When the Turkish Foreign Minister points out that Prime Minister Erdogan sees any such attack as an “opportunity” for Turkey to strike, The Wall Street Journal portrays this as “taking the threat of radical groups in Syria seriously.” The disconnect between what the officials are actually talking about and the way it is being described is striking.

Still, there remain many questions about the recording and where it came from, why it was released now, and what it means for the future of the NATO agenda in Egypt and for the Turkish government. Earlier this week BoilingFrogsPost.com editor and founder Sibel Edmonds joined me on The Corbett Report to discuss the recording and what it means for Turkey.

Sibel Edmonds of BoilingFrogsPost.com
joins us to uncover the truth about the recently released conversation
between top ranking Turkish officials discussing plans for a staged
provocation pretext to start a war with Syria. We talk about who likely
leaked the recording and why they did it, as well as how it impacts the
war between Erdogan and the CIA-Gulenists that we discussed in our last
conversation.

By leaking Turkish leaders' false flag plots, the CIA is destabilizing Turkey and undermining Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan, despite all his craven attitude to the West, an analyst writes for Press TV.

In an article for Press TV website, Kevin Barrett, a professor of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies, referred to an audio recording leaked on YouTube on March 27, which, according to USA Today, appears to reveal top Turkey officials plotting to fake an attack against their own country as an excuse to wage war on Syria.
The audio is claimed to be a recording of Turkey's foreign minister, its intelligence chief and an undersecretary of foreign affairs discussing plans to stage attacks on Turkey from Syrian soil to justify waging a counterattack on Syria.

“The false flag scandal is the latest crisis to rock Erdogan's government, which has been locked in a power struggle with CIA-backed cleric Fethullah Gulen. Turkish sources say Gulen's organization, which dominates the Turkish National Police, probably recorded and leaked the false-flag tape with CIA assistance.”

He added that the CIA and its Zionist partners are worried that Turkey may become “a powerful, prosperous, independent Islamic democracy” and no longer be a reliable US-NATO client state and stop kowtowing to Israel.

“If the West can keep Turkey weak, it can continue to dominate that strategically crucial country. So it is employing a divide-and-conquer strategy by splitting Turkey's democratic Islamic movement between CIA stooge Gulen and the slightly more independent Erdogan,” the commentator pointed out.

Barrett also pointed to the spread of the false flag meme and explained, “The CIA and its Israeli friends are the world's worst false flag culprits. If the people of the world ever wake up and understand that national leaders routinely attack their own countries as a pretext for going to war, the top echelon of leaders in the US and Israel will spend the rest of their lives in prison for their crimes against humanity on September 11th, 2001.”
He emphasized that by destabilizing Turkey through leaking its leaders' false flag plots, the CIA is “playing with fire.”

Barrett further dismissed as a “lie” a report by the New York Times that characterized the leaked tape recording as suggesting "that Turkey was looking to provoke an attack to justify a Turkish military operation."

“The Turkish leaders were not looking to provoke an attack; they were looking to carry out the attack themselves.”